Introducing the IB DP class of 2014

Acknowledgement and thanks

IB DP TeachersCathy Mc Cann, Amanda Sze and Tony Baughan

Exhibition and Set UPAngela Ma, The Blue Team and Year 12 IB DIP students

Photography Year 13 Visual Arts students

Admin supportCrystal Li and Libby Yu

Graphic Design supportSamuel Ng (Red Door)

Additional supportThe Design Technology Faculty

Cleo Andersen-Green

Jade Birkby

Joshua Chan

Jenny Han

Kate Huang

Barbie Lam

Samuel Lam

Joyce Lee

Sampras Lee

Audrey Leung

Janice Mo

Alvina Poon

Robyn Ragavaloo

Karina Ramchandani

Jhalak Shah

Ray Suda

Scarlet Sung

Zecco Tai

Abigail Victorino

Grace Tsang

Cindy Wan

Pansy Yu Benjamin Yeung

Conrad Yung

Cleo Andersen-Green

IB Art has been a really fun experience, throughout which I have learned many different techniques, found new artists and have explored the art culture of Hong Kong. Although I have used many different sources for my inspiration, my main theme has been Alice in Wonderland. I have always been fascinated by Lewis Carroll’s story as well as the many different cinematic reproductions. Overall this year and a half has a been an interesting journey in which I discovered a lot about my artistic ability while furthering my competency in certain art skills.

If The Key Fits

Naked Fire

The Stare

Jade Birkby

Throughout my first year of IB Visual Arts, I was able to develop different skills and techniques that I then utilised again in my second year. I particularly found the visiting artist workshops to be helpful in broadening my range of media and inspiration. I was able to create a few mixed media pieces, focusing mainly on using earthy colours and differing textures of paper. I was also able to focus on Hong Kong scenery and traditional Chinese subjects as my inspiration for many pieces.

Overall, the Visual Arts programme has developed my artistic style, and allowed me to become familiar with a variety of artistic techniques in order to create a wide range of art.

My Hong Kong

Photoshop nudes

Blue Man

The main themes of my pieces revolved around social issues and personal identity. Ranging from buildings with emotions, to the insecurity of naked bodies, to cruelty of guns and death, and to split personalities, they all represent the underlying problems in our society that tend to be covered due to our cultural and social norm. These pieces are expressions of the buried anxiety in the corners inside myself, through an artistic showcase.

Joshua Chan

Beauty

Trapped

Hands_Medium is the Message

Jenny Han

Tomorrow

Psychopaths

Tonight

In my portfolio, I tried to achieve both the diversity of the medium and on focusing on a concept. The portfolio is composed of both realistic and abstract representations in various spatial dimensions, mainly with the use of acrylic paint and black pen sketches as well as mixed media. For this reason, my artworks contain a strong sense of space and texture. My inspirations not only come from artists like Ian Murphy who inspired me with the use of texture and lines at a workshop held in RCHK, but also the environments around myself, such as my own culture and personality. In addition, the environment of my own culture is mostly based on Korean traditional architectures such as the old palaces.

Kate Huang

The influences for my artwork have been different artists I have come across, both prior to and during the IB Higher Level Art program. In particular, I have been influenced by the work of Jim Dine and Mariko Jesse. I have tried using a variety of different media to improve my artistic range and allow me to achieve more compelling compositions, such as acrylic paint, printing ink, drawing ink, oil pastel, ballpoint pen, and Photoshop. I have also experimented with using various materials, such as textured paper and tissue paper, to enhance my artwork by creating surface texture or place emphasis on a certain section.

Clamp

Colorbind

Architecture is a reflection of the mind’s eye

Barbie Lam

I’m fine

Departure

City VS Nature

Art is like a life story, an emotion waiting to be discovered. I see all artwork as epiphanies, being able to turn a concept into physical pieces. Whether the work is my own or by another artist, it gives me joy whenever I discover the hidden intention or message of the work because of the slight chance that it may be relatable to myself.

Samuel Lam

RGB

Complexities of a Human

Art Car

“Abstract” was the my main direction for my initial art pieces. My pieces reflect different themes such as the media, video games, automobiles, and cultures from Hong Kong, it avoids being explicitly biased as I wanted to strive to express an issue or theme in a more creative and unique manner, so it will spark conversation and different interpretations. My art reflects upon my different experiences in life, knowledge, interests and beliefs.

Waves (Sculpture on Mirror - Back side) Despair

Steps. Hong Kong

Joyce Lee

Ai Wei Wei is by far the most influential artist that influences my style and the way I develop my conceptual floor installation, “Obstacles”, one of my signature pieces. I am fascinated by how Ai Wei Wei uses simple materials and turns them into powerful huge size installations. After a series of investigation and experiments, I am able to further develop my interest in some specific art techniques, such as ink drawing and watercolor drawing and also to challenge myself to learn new skills such as using Photoshop to create digital art.

Sampras Lee

My works tend to contain very concrete ideas because I often make very literal interpretations of themes and concepts. They often show a timeline of my experiments and a development of ideas, which are evident in my workbook. I like to experiment with different forms of media before deciding which is most appropriate for that specific theme, which ranges from: acrylic paint, gesso, charcoal, pen, ink, tissue paper,wood etc.

Tiles

Magenta

Polar

Audrey Leung

Back to Tai O Part 2 香港地

Shape

In the course of my IB Higher Level Visual Arts experience, I explored different artists and themes through my artworks and experiments. Starting off from the basic theme of daily products and elementarymethods—such as pencil sketches of everyday objects, I branched into greater themes such as illegal organ trade and organic and natural forms of a bell pepper. I sought inspiration in artists of the past as well as contemporary ones who use digital media. This vast and extensive range of such exploration has allowed me to develop my work slowly, utilizing different styles such as traditional sketching and some contemporary methods of art.

Janice Mo

If You Dare Vitasoy

The Utility of a Coping Saw

During the investigation stage, I had the chance to broaden the types of artworks I had access to and increase my knowledge of existing artworks. Through the process of analyzing the different elements and principles of art in an artwork, I was also able to understand how these features work together to serve the purpose of a piece, which is always used as an inspiration for my own artwork. Andy Warhol, Saul Bass and Barbara Kruger are three of the many artists who have influenced my work. The core similarity between these artists is their use of bright and simple colours, and the use of bold text when necessary. Most of my artworks adopts this graphic style.

Artistically, I aim to create pieces that are able to spark thought and emotion for both the topic and the creation of the piece. As a teenager in the midst of gripping an understanding of myself and the world around me, I often find myself expressing random deep or silly thoughts through my artwork; which explains the variety of theme and style.

Alvina Poon

Festival of The Lantern Urban Creatures

The Exhibit

Since a young age bold colours and interesting shapes have always caught my eye, and I have always showed an interest in Art, particularly fashion, having always been drawing out designs or trying to get into the school fashion shows.

As far as inspiration is concerned, I get inspired by day to day things and the irony of human nature. How contradictory we are, in terms of our beliefs or the things we stand for. This interests me and is always a theme that my artwork tends to fall into. Contradictions are beautiful when the irony of the situation is understood by the viewer, if human kind had not been this way we would all have the same opinions on everything, but we don’t and this depicts the freedom of artistic expression as well.

Robyn Ragavaloo

Loud mouth

Diet of dollars

Unhealthy affection

Karina Ramchandani

The purpose of choosing art at higher level was to allow me to use the events around me and incorporate them in to my pieces. Being a very categorical person, I found that my workbook was a larger part of the process as I found that using outside sources and looking at different artist’s techniques and experimenting was the larger aspect of the art process. In my exhibition I’m going to be exhibiting pieces from human form, and working with the different techniques such as lino prints and photoshop, and also different paint. I found that each of these pieces came together really well because of the research. Besides research, I create artwork because it’s an excellent outlet for me. It helps me through the stresses in my life by allowing me to immerse myself in self-exploration and broaden my horizons.

A House with Splashes of Colour

Bodies in the Digital Age

My Indian Dream Home

Jhalak Shah

Cultural Paradise Recline

Plastic StatuetteI have delved deeply into experimental and conceptual art displayed in my investigation workbook and studio work. My initial themes for this course were ‘culture’ and ‘environments’ relating to my surroundings and myself. However, art to me is discovering, exploring and experimenting. Such principles therefore led me to the themes of ‘human form’ and ‘issues’, for which I developed a strong interest in.

Ray Suda

Through the IB Visual Arts Higher Level course, my personal objective and motivation was to develop my drawing techniques and speed. Since I enjoy drawing illustrations, mostly figurative, I think it is important for myself to have the techniques in order to visualise my ideas into reality. My artworks are mostly based on my own imagination, however I have been training myself on my skills on drawing things accurately and fast through various units such as real life objects and still life, as well as human form.

Most of my artworks are illustrations, and I have avoided using digital media because I wanted to show the possibilities of traditional media in creating the same effects as in digital media.

Rebellion 乱

Seasons

The Doll’s House

Scarlet Sung

The course has allowed me to use techniques and media in visual arts and to take advantage of these skills to best portray my artistic visions. The research and experimentation has given me a fascinating experience and it has allowed me to explore culture, issues and emotions through artworks. I have also demonstrated cultural awareness through these artworks by researching cultural patterns and designs. In the context of a multicultural city, I have created artworks in regards to several city structures and the busy lifestyle of Hong Kong citizens. I have also created artworks relating to social issues, such as teenage depression and oversexualization.

Vitasoy

The Utility of a Coping Saw

The Utility of a Coping Saw

Zecco Tai

By the years

Flaming Lambo

Subdivided flats in Hong Kong

My theme really began to develop by observing the place where I live; the environment surrounding me. My main theme and focus whilst creating most of my artworks has been the elements that make the city of Hong Kong so beautiful! and so different compared to other major cities in the world. I wanted to create something that is about me, something that is related to where I come from.

Abigail Victorino

Colors Skelly

Flow within

Many fantasies flow through different people, whom have different perspectives and ideas, and this has lead me to develop my theme of “Surrealism”; I made artworks that consist of colorful yet unreal scenes, which depict my ideas on how much a person can imagine in various ways. This further developed into my other theme of “Long Journeys” where I made artworks based on places that I want to go to, have been to, and imagined because I want to discover the world. I then mixed my theme of “Identity” into my themes and used paper-cutting techniques to represent my Chinese culture.

While developing my style, I have been inspired by artists such as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. The dramatically contrasting styles played a vital role in helping me develop my own style. I carried Schiele’s use of broken lines and broken form into my own interpretations of the human body and also in my series of ink portraits. I put a greater emphasis upon line in my work, experimenting with twisted and distorted line along with long, linear shapes.

In terms of media, I discovered a passion for using ink, something that I am looking forward to continue pursuing. This is a medium that I had previously no experience with, but have grown quite comfortable using. I feel like this really helped me step outside my comfort zone and grow as an artist.

Grace Tsang

Trees Bear Fruit

Flowers in Bloom

Portuguese Market

Cindy Wan

Snowflake in Paris

Insanity

Conflict

My art can be described as a vibrant delusion in both realistic and abstract forms. The process demonstrates the initial idea and gradual change through experiencing stages to the fully developed artworks. Media used included charcoal, acrylic, pen, ink, texture-paste and spray paint. The nature of the sources that I used were Cultural and Contemporary Artists. Zhao Ming Wu’s artwork “Essence” inspired me to explore with charcoal to create a sense of half abstract and half realism.

My artwork is about the exploration of oneself through a social and cultural aspect. Most of the pieces that I have created focus on the process of finding my identity, with the influence of society and culture. They all represent the fragments of my identity and reality that I have discovered around me.

The whole idea of creating pieces with the theme self exploration was to try and discover my own personal identity. The development of identity in adolescence can be affected by everything around, and it it likely that teenagers conform to the social and cultural norms because they want to fit in, resulting in them undergoing a loss of identity.

Society and culture can confuse us as to who we think we are. The pieces that I create represent different factors that may have affected us, whether it is in a good way or bad way.

Pansy Yu

Shrink

Puff, Sex, Chug.

Palindrome

Benjamin Yeung

Studying visual arts has been very rewarding, as it has provided me the opportunity to witness and extrapolate upon my own artistic development, whilst expanding my knowledge of famous historical and contemporary artists during my artist investigations.

Tools-CS6 The Last of Us Sculpture (Vanishing Grace)

The Last of Us Drawing (You and Me)

Conrad Yung

The woman Patterns

Hustle and Bustle

“Culture” is the theme that my artworks reflect on because I was inspired by a variety of artists and places. Every piece shows how I explored my artistic senses and introduced different cultures to my audience. Even though I was influenced by my local environment, my art pieces are predominantly inspired by Western artists like Henri Matisse and Henry Holland.

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